Venom: The Heroic Search for Australia's Deadliest Snake

by Brendan James Murray

In the early years of the 20th century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taipan, an eight foot, lightning fast venomous snake whose bite meant certain death. Venom is an examination of European settlers' troubled and often antagonistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760405698
• ISBN13: 9781760405694
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Echo Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"